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Table Rolls - Encounter Complications

Two almost fully-grown black bear-cubs follow their mother. The mother
is pain and stops to paw at a few golden feathers growing from her
side and back.

Has a fey cursed them? Will she become an owlbear?

Generated from the Encounter Complications (roll of an 8, one or more of them is cursed) table below and the Forest Levels 1-4 table(roll of a 9, 1d3 Brown Bears)

Adding Complications to Encounters

The Encounter Complications table below is system neutral and can make any encounter more memorable. Use it as an option to add a complication to an encounter.

You might turn an encounter with 7 orcs into an encounter where 3 of them are drunk on mead and attempting to do something stupid. Or where one of them is a doppelganger who takes the opportunity to run away or try to sneak into the PC party.